A mother has been fined £400 because her son missed a day of school nearly nine years ago because he had severe headaches as a result of an undiagnosed brain tumour.
Darilyn Rothwell, 51, from Radcliffe, Manchester, was given just seven days to pay the fine which was issued because her 24-year-old son Chris Barlow was off sick when he was a teenager in November 2004.
She claims she had informed the school that her son, who had to take several sick days in the months before his diagnosis, was ill but she was fined for his 'truancy' anyway .... http://www.dailymail.co.uk
